i may be wrong but i think what cptnsisko was saying is that people actually do not know that tranny is a slur for years i thought that it was just slang i never thought any less of trans people and never would want to offend anybody i just didnt know that the word had any negative connotation fortunately i find most slang awkward and never used it but id be willing to bet that a huge number of the people who use the word like me just have no idea that the word means anything different than any inoffensive word im not saying that it makes it okay just that a lot of its use is likely nonmalicious